Control: tags -1 +wontfix On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:29:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > When several system administrators work on the same machine, and when > changes in /etc/ can happen automatically based on cfengine runs or > cron jobs, it is very useful to be able to see when in the day a > change was introduced in /etc/ without depending on manual commits. I agree with Joey's analysis: doing hourly commits seems like a little overkill, and I think the daily policy is a fine default. Besides, it's policy: if we change it to hourly, someone will yell that we should change it back to daily. :) Since you use cfengine, you should be able to easily change that configuration, and it will be retained on upgrades. Furthermore, I encourage you to install pre/post hooks in your configuration management engine instead of relying on cron jobs. For example, at work, we have the following hooks in our puppet client configuration: prerun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-pre postrun_command=/etc/puppet/etckeeper-commit-post both hooks basically call "etckeeper commit" after ensuring the environment is sane. A.
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